“Hunting the Quails of North America is quintessential Ben O. Williams — taut, direct, suffused with earned knowledge, and permeated by a gentle humor. It is a joyous book, brimming with its author’s love of life afield, and while easily the most useful guide extant on the subject of wingshooting North American quails, it is also far more than a how-to manual. Its pages serve up wisdom, vision, and finally the ineffable and heartbreaking beauty of days spent out of doors.” —David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars and East of the Mountains